Sunday, 31 July 2011

Finished the second cushion late last night, so waited to take some decent pictures this morning,after the reeeeally bad photo's of the second Daisy Granny cushion from the day before...sorry about that

Did a stripy back to this one, but made the stripes more solid looking, by crocheting into the back of the stitch only

Love making these cushions and quite quick to make too

2 down 2 to go...blue shades next to go with the blue pots and the gorgeous blue Hydrangea that saidbuy me, buy me yesterday in Homebase...bit expensive but isn't she gorgeous?...

Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Managed to squeeze a couple of rounds on the GG last night taking about 35/40minutes to get

all the way round now

still trying to decide on the pattern...flower or circle...to add to the other GG

Bought and started the bin cover store yesterday but Phil had to go to work so hoping to finish it this morning

peek of it so far

Really only wanted it to be 4' high but the panels we liked the best only came in 6' panels so hoping to conceal everything and l will add a wooden planter to this end and grow a climber of some kind over it

This little recess is almost always in shade and never used as we thought it would be, so most of the storing will go on here, behind were we sit in the garden

Played for an hour or more yesterday trying different ways to make these, eventually a folding and scrunching of each loop was the most successful, tied with wire and then pulled into peach perfection lol

A 25m roll of ribbon made the 'v' shape Ribbon mirror to mirror length and 6 loopy bows

The Bride has given her approval

Definitely a Christmas present decoration in the making, just a little smaller may be

HOLLYHOCKS

The Hollyhocks are still hiding a bit so l needed to get in an odd position to take the pictures.....I left it a bit late to add a stake for support and they have grown a bit twisted and bent but great to watch the flowers bloom up the stem one by one lol...definitely on the 'to grow again' list

Pretty double flowers..

The little grouping of pots from about a week ago has bloomed too...

ROSES

Can some one tell me a bit about Roses please?

Last year we only had about 6 flowers in all, this year they just keep coming

l've fed them a few times and l keep dead heading them too..will that make them bloom more?

A fight with a rose bush when l was first married and my first garden, put me off Roses for a life time

All of these we inherited in the new garden, the bushes looked small so l thought l'd keep them, although l did prune very heavily thinking that's what l should do, plus a little bit of hatred for them l'm afraid lol...

But they seem to have come good and my love for Roses is blossoming slowly

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.Ben Hogan

Thursday, 21 July 2011

Thanks for the lovely comments YOU ALL always make me feel better about what l'm making, when l'm not sure of myself.....thanks blogland friends

Yes l agree it does LOOK complicated and intricate, but it isn't if you can make a SC triangle and a basic granny square you could make this design up real easy

Decide on the number of stitches you need for each triangle and make your granny size a multiple of that number then do the single crochet triangles all around your granny then a chain to join the points and a couple more rows of SC then back to the basic granny clusters again and keep going

still deciding on the fill-ins for the holes

Still trying to decide on the border for the other GG (underneath the triangle one in the above pictures)

but thinking it will be flowers or circles in the same blended colours...still experimenting

both GG's, as you can see will need blocking, a bit wavy at the moment

Tension

How is your Crochet tension?

I'm afraid my tension is quite loose and varies quite a lot

One good thing for that is....

l can always gain a couple of inches to finish a row, by undoing a foot or so and re-doing it,

holding the yarn tighter lol

NOONOO WEDDING

Ned to spend an hour or so on the wedding ribbons and flowers for NooNoo...the wedding is on Saturday

should be some pictures soon but not until after the wedding don't want to spoil the surprise

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Thanks everyone, thanks Blogger and Thank goodness for CROCHET...l'm all sorted now

NEW GIANT GRANNY BLANKET WITH TRIANGLE INSETS

A few days go l needed to crochet but not think to much, so l started a giant Granny square in memory of my very 1st granny square blanket l made over 45years ago....wish l knew what happened to that one!I found and used a small blended sample as the inspiration and got started

21 rounds later l was bored with it....

so l scribbled a few ideas down on paper and decided to try out one of the ideas on a small cushion size sample first

I found a small granny square that l had started months ago made of ends and small balls, added the triangles to it...wasn't sure where to go next but laid it down and let it morph a bit

then l knew where to go...so added the chain to make a square again and liked it so much l kept going and now have two Giant Granny Square blankets in the making...

sorry about the awful photos...semi dark when l took them last night and this morning...lolThe corner holes are too big to leave so l'm thinking a flower of some description or l quite like the circles

Continuing on using left overs in all colours, mixing 2 strands of DK and a 6mm hook

I'm thinking l'll try a different scribbled idea on the blended Giant Granny if the one idea works then l think the others will tooGood to be back on track and happy playing hooky

Have a Wonderful Wednesday everyonehugs to all x

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I am with you kid Let's go!'-- Maya Angelou --